DETROIT - Marian Ilitch wiped a few tears from her eyes while her son, Christopher, spoke at a press conference at Wayne State University in Detroit on Friday.
The Wayne State Board of Governors had just voted to accept a $40-million gift Mike Ilitch, 86, and Marian, and rename the business school the Mike Ilitch School of Business.
She sat with her husband in front of a massive conceptual rendering of the school. It showed what the building might look like in The District Detroit next to the future $450-million Detroit Events Center, which the Ilitches are currently building.